[CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

Sat Apr 13 15:08:15 UTC 2013
Michael Schumacher <michael.schumacher at pamas.de>

hi,

> yeah, until a disk fails on a 40 disk array and the chassis LEDs on the
> backplane don't light up to indicate which disk it is and your 
> operations monkey pulls the wrong one and crash the whole raid.

that is why I put a label on every drive tray that is visible without
pulling the disk. That label carries the serial number, so that the
monkey can double check the disk serial before pulling it. In fact, I
was the silly monkey once, so I am careful now :-)


best regards
---
Michael